I have to admit, I'm on the same wavelength as reddictaccountiuse -- I'm detecting with some of your comments hints that you think it's your son's fault that he wasn't able to follow through with the speech therapy or that it "hurts to hear your brothers stutter". Thinking that my stutter could hurt or annoy someone, honestly it's kind of offensive. Do you apply a lot of pressure for your son to be fluent? I had some of that as a kid and it was god awful. I remember feeling like speech therapy and speaking was a prison, that I was forced to speak and act in a certain way that was "right" to keep other people happy even though I just didn't have it in me. If you listen to a lot of the people on StutterTalk there is this feeling that speech fluency shaping techniques and things like that are a thing of the past. If you stutter by a certain age, there is a pretty good chance you are going to be stuttering for the rest of your life despite how hard you try. It's okay, it's not the end of the world. Maybe some kind of therapy or working with your son on feeling okay with his situation would be the best because as some other people said, the confidence factor can go a long way. If I think back upon my childhood, sure it would have been great to have taken some class or whatever so I didn't stutter anymore. I'm 31 now, a successful research scientist, and I stuttered through all of it. I think having had a chance to do speech therapy where I felt that "they had my back" or that I was OK as is and not broken, that would have gone a longer way.